Party Again
Jen's having another party. This one's bigger and longer. Her friends from high school are all coming down from NYC for the weekend. It's being billed as "A Weekend in the Country." Lots to do to get ready. First was finding a home for all our trim.
It's been laying in the floor of our family room for roughly five months now. We'll probably need that floor space for people to pass out and sleep on. Also we're having a pellet stove installed in a couple of weeks in this room. It's our car on cinder-blocks so to speak.
So I threw together a little shelf to keep it all neat and tidy. Probably took longer to stack all the trim then it did to build the shelf.
With the shelf done, we had some dinner then ran off to Lowes to see what they had as far as cheap deck furniture. Having a pool and a deck makes for a shortage of furniture. Asking your guests carry their chair back and forth between the two is like asking them to get their own beer out of the fridge - on the front porch. Lucky for us Lowes was having a sale. In particular the same furniture we bought last spring was now 30% off. A quick consultation with the accountant decided we should go for it and buy nearly a second set of the same furniture. Yeah it's a little like going to the mall wearing matching jogging suits, but the furniture is sturdy and the right price.
We got most of the chairs, but are having trouble sourcing the table. I've got a few ideas. Of which dating my cousin is not one of them, so we'll see.
After we got home, Jen went to bed and I went about cleaning up the basement. We still have unpacked boxes all over the place. They're haphazardly strewn about the downstairs hallway, family room and one of the other rooms. It's a total mess (I should have gotten pictures). Kind of like buying beer with food stamps. Into the wee hours of the night I moved and stacked all the boxes into the one room. Not only did I consolidate the location of the boxes, but I stacked them in such a way you can actually enter and use this room, though only in a limited fashion - like find a box you need to unpack. Now the hallway is clear and the family room looks like what it was intended for - not an old U-Hual you've parked back in the weeds.
Tonight I finish up with the basement then hit the upstairs for vacuuming and polishing. What is it with Jen's parties and me working so hard anyway?
- b
It's been laying in the floor of our family room for roughly five months now. We'll probably need that floor space for people to pass out and sleep on. Also we're having a pellet stove installed in a couple of weeks in this room. It's our car on cinder-blocks so to speak.So I threw together a little shelf to keep it all neat and tidy. Probably took longer to stack all the trim then it did to build the shelf.
With the shelf done, we had some dinner then ran off to Lowes to see what they had as far as cheap deck furniture. Having a pool and a deck makes for a shortage of furniture. Asking your guests carry their chair back and forth between the two is like asking them to get their own beer out of the fridge - on the front porch. Lucky for us Lowes was having a sale. In particular the same furniture we bought last spring was now 30% off. A quick consultation with the accountant decided we should go for it and buy nearly a second set of the same furniture. Yeah it's a little like going to the mall wearing matching jogging suits, but the furniture is sturdy and the right price.We got most of the chairs, but are having trouble sourcing the table. I've got a few ideas. Of which dating my cousin is not one of them, so we'll see.After we got home, Jen went to bed and I went about cleaning up the basement. We still have unpacked boxes all over the place. They're haphazardly strewn about the downstairs hallway, family room and one of the other rooms. It's a total mess (I should have gotten pictures). Kind of like buying beer with food stamps. Into the wee hours of the night I moved and stacked all the boxes into the one room. Not only did I consolidate the location of the boxes, but I stacked them in such a way you can actually enter and use this room, though only in a limited fashion - like find a box you need to unpack. Now the hallway is clear and the family room looks like what it was intended for - not an old U-Hual you've parked back in the weeds.
Tonight I finish up with the basement then hit the upstairs for vacuuming and polishing. What is it with Jen's parties and me working so hard anyway?
- b
posted by JenBob at
7:27 AM
3 Comments:
You would make us dirtbags get our own beers...what's up with that
So you'd take offense if I suggested you grab yourself an 05 Wallop?
Nooo....I guess not, can't wait till tomorrow...I hope they still have christmas in July at victory..the 04 horizantal was out of this world
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